background spid causing blocking

  • hi, i have a sql 2008 r2 OLTP instance. I have noticed a background spid running for two days, status: background, login: sa, lastwaittype: SOS_SCHEDULER_Y,statement: NULL. This spid is causing blocking on my server for other transactions. I have looked on sysprocesses and i can't see what is running, i do see the command column changing from update, select. I have also seen a large growth in my tempdb but cannot figure out what is running causing this. Can anyone help me?

  • can i try to kill this spid? or since is an internal spid, the only way to stop it is to restart services?

  • DBA-640728 (5/6/2014)


    can i try to kill this spid? or since is an internal spid, the only way to stop it is to restart services?

    Do you have replication running, by any chance?

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    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
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  • yes i do have replication running

  • I restarted the services and that solved the spid running in the background for days.

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